The art team Side Core has been developing projects across Japan while maintaining its base of activities in Tokyo. Underlying this practice is the realization that “a city depends on other areas and regions in every aspect of life,” something that they have felt since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Side Core has redefined street culture not in terms of “artistic expression in urban public space,” but as “the street,” which mediates between different places and values. In other words, they are attempting to redefine street culture not as a mode of artistic expression confined to the streets of the city, but as an artistic movement based on chain reactions of movement and culture, connecting local areas and regions to each other.

This exhibition focuses on the theme of modes of artistic expression that connect different places to each other, as seen from the lens of roads and movement. In addition to exhibiting works based on the theme of roads and movement, the exhibition will open “another road” in the space of the museum through free spaces that will pop up in the exhibition zones for a limited period of time.

In addition, guest artists will be invited to focus on artistic movements that weave a way of life that exists outside of institutions into everyday life, sharing it with the global community through expressions of street culture such as skateboarding, graffiti, and music events. By turning the museum into a place where a diversity of values and ways of life intersect, this is a proposition for new possibilities for artistic expression in a museum context.